How To Install gnucobol4 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol4 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gnucobol4
gnucobol4 is:
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, COBOL 2002 and COBOL 2014 standards and X/Open COBOL, as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others).
GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using a native C compiler.
Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems.
While being held to a high level of quality and robustness, GnuCOBOL does not claim to be a “Standard Conforming” implementation of COBOL.
GnuCOBOL passes over 9600 of the NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests and over 750 internal checks during build.
There are three methods to install gnucobol4 on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnucobol4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnucobol4
Install gnucobol4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnucobol4
Install gnucobol4 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnucobol4
How To Uninstall gnucobol4 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gnucobol4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnucobol4
Uninstall gnucobol4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnucobol4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucobol4
Remove gnucobol4 Configurations and Data
To remove gnucobol4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnucobol4
Remove gnucobol4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnucobol4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucobol4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol4 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
